How to Stop Telegram from Accessing and Syncing Your Contacts in 2023
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How to Stop Telegram from Accessing and Syncing Your Contacts in 2023

Figuring out how to stop Telegram from syncing contacts in 2023 can be really frustrating. That’s in part because it’s changed, and all of the information out there only works under certain setups. It’s also because you can’t stop Telegram from accessing your contacts if you are trying to do it from a desktop or browser. You have to do it from the mobile app.

iPhone or iPad No Longer Showing Recent iMessage Contacts in Quick Share Sheet Here is the Fix
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iPhone or iPad No Longer Showing Recent Message Contacts in Quick Share Sheet? Here’s the Fix

If you’ve lost your iMessage contacts from your quick share section (the “share sheet”) on your iPhone or iPad, here’s how to get them back.

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How Displaying Sender’s Contact Image and Info in Email Allows Scammers to Steal from You

Every webmail service out there, be it Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or other, encourages you to upload or merge your contacts with their system. And most Mac and PC email programs automatically cross-reference an incoming email sender with their entry in your contacts. The result is often that their contact profile picture, and ‘friendly’ name, is displayed as the sender of that email in your inbox.

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Why New and Improved Siri Compromises Your Privacy Even More

As we mentioned in our “what’s new in iOS 9” article, the “improvements” that Apple added to Siri in iOS 9 may be a privacy nightmare (even more than previously).

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How to Add a Mac Contact Picture without Photo Stream or Faces

Frustrated at trying to figure out how to add a photo as a contact’s profile picture (i.e. how to set an avatar) for someone in Contacts on your Mac? Here’s how to easily add an image to a contact card when the picture is not in your photo stream, Faces, or the default images.

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Massive Android Security Hole Affects up to 99% of All Android Users

Three researchers in Germany at the University of Ulm have discovered a massive security hole in Android – so big, in fact, that it affects at least 97%, and as many as 99%, of all Android users. The researchers, Bastian Könings, Jens Nickels, and Florian Schaub, have discovered that the security flaw allows anyone who is sniffing around your connection on an unsecured wireless network to acquire your Google authorization credentials from a specific token (the authToken), giving them access to your contacts, your calendar and, well – really any application that authenticates you by using your Google authorization credentials contained within that authToken.